23/6/04.
Peter,
> I've CVS'd the CAT library based on the released sources (and daringly
> committed it all to saturn).
Is this the year of living dangerously?
> Clive, during this I noticed that the ADAM and standalone parts are in
> fact the same, so it now creates a libcat_adam library as well. Was this
> confusion a relic of the nasty old CHI/HDS days, or is there something I
> haven't spotted (so I'd better back out of this change)?
Hmmm. I've not thought about this for a long time. I think the idea
of the stand-alone version was that it shouldn't include calls to any of
the ADAM libraries. Ie. it would exclude eg. CAT_ASSOC, which includes
calls to the parameter system. In my master source CAT_ASSOC and its
kin live in a separate directory, but in a Starlink release they are
merged in with the other routines. I don't think that I ever produced
a separate stand-alone library, so it is academic now.
Further to yesterday's messages:
> > > Hmmm. On consideration, there are some sub-libraries in CAT (eg. the
> > > CAT0_ routines) which I generated automatically using programs and
> > > scripts which I never released. It probably doesn't matter, these
> > > routines are unlikely to change now.
> > >
> >
> > If you have the scripts we may as well use them (if they are easily
> > available). It's at least worth a look.
>
> Hi Clive,
>
> I agreem, if they are available we should probably put these in the
> repository anyway, even if we don't use them. That at least leaves open
> the possibility of a CAT redux.
Ok. Peter: should I create a tar archive with this stuff and e-mail it
to you?
cheers,
Clive.
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